The average gas price when Biden left office was $3.11. It’s currently $4.50. The only time in Biden’s administration when it was higher than now was 2 months in the summer of 2022 right after Russia invaded Ukraine.

I’m generally skeptical of “one weird trick” solutions, but this seems pretty close…

New NYT poll has Dems +11 in the generic House ballot matchup. Among independents it's +18 points. If accurate, that has the makings of a blue wave and I wonder if it gets South Carolina Republicans to rethink their gerrymander before it's too late.

Exhibit 1A in how money and connections have nothing to do with intelligence or common sense.

Farmers elected Trump to make them rich

This really can’t be right, I was told that Trump won the Iran War!

This is why slopulism is bad. Sometimes the solutions that actually work don't have the snappiest messaging!

This can't be right, I was told Trump solved the Hormuz problem

I don’t seem to recall Bash or any other members of the MSM asking Trump comparable questions after the assassination attempt on Pelosi, or the mail bombs sent to every top prominent Democratic politician, or the successful assassination of the top Minnesota Democratic legislator, …

The Trump family turned the right's "Biden Crime Family" bullshit into a business plan. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Sorry, even offering RFK jr the benefit of the doubt… how does this make any sense? Did he mean 6000% reduction?

Bhattacharya, who has taken contrarian positions against the scientific establishment about covid for years, has unilaterally decided to censor a study providing evidence of covid vaccine effectiveness. This is who runs America’s public health agencies now. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

The median American voter believes Trump should be impeached, so clearly all the centrist enlightened pundits will say we should heed the wisdom of the people, right?

That's before we get into the value destruction being caused by the deadweight loss and the inevitable interest effects. Donald Trump and his rich buddies stole your fucking money

How do upzonings impact housing supply? In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Keep stats like this in mind every time Republicans boast about how great Texas and Florida are and how the Northeast is such a hellhole.

Trump is being fed bad information. The US might be leading China in AI, but if it is, it’s not by a lot, and the company doing the leading is Anthropic, which the Trump admin doesn’t like!

So, it’s absolutely true that there is a theory of just war. And under that theory Trump is absolutely not fighting a just war.

Oh, Rick Scott wants to punish rapists does he? Has he considered who the leader of his political party is?

Who exactly is responsible for her husband’s cancer treatments being unaffordable?

1) in general, politicians should take their salary, as it should not be expected that you have to be rich to be a politician. 2) Obviously, Trump doesn't take the presidential salary because he gets his cut by selling influence using the power of his office. In other words, bribes.

As always, every accusation from Republicans is a confession.

Kernen’s entire argument that Biden oversaw 22% increases in prices is wrecked by the fact that much of that was due to the massive amount of money Trump injected into the economy in 2020.

This is stolen valor. Not a single Republican in power today had anything to do with America’s actions in World War 2. And no one is saying Europeans would be speaking Farsi if America didn’t decide to attack Iran.

This is what Republican governance gets you. Higher inflation, higher unemployment, and sluggish gdp growth.

Idk maybe dial back the "but what if nukes" stuff because (a) he won't and (b) tomorrow when he didn't I don't want to hear anyone say "well on the plus side he didn't use nukes"

I agree with this, and go slightly further: all the people yelling about nukes is setting the stage for “relief” when Trump merely uses conventional weapons to blow up power plants and lead to slow mass death instead of fast mass death. Let’s not give Trump that benefit, even inadvertently.

Foreign interference you say?

The psychological projection is getting a bit thick

It's funny how the popularists will never mention this highly unpopular policy in the Trump administration and how Republicans need to run away from it ASAP.

Is there any precedent in history where a country starts a war against a vastly weaker country, and loses within a month?

Trump take game console

If you actually listen to this clip... it's hard to believe that someone incapable of keeping a consistent thought for 10 seconds controls unilateral nuclear launch authority, and now apparently also has unilateral authority to launch wars against any country he pleases.

The Trump administration is a massive insider trading operation, on top of whatever else it is they are doing.

Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s market-turning post

I joke about this stuff but 15 minutes before the Trump post hit the tape there was a surge in e-mini price and volume. Someone knew and traded.

This is the second fatal plane crash of a major carrier under Trump 2.0 (and 3rd hull loss accident). In both cases they were due to failures in ATC procedures, not mechanical issues. There were no such accidents under Biden. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

I’m looking forward to all the right-wing natalists pushing WFH now /s

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

Ah, well, it’s great that the US isn’t known as being a country full of people who love to buy things. Nope, Americans are famously frugal!

This is psychological projection. If there were no tax evasion, tax revenue would increase by something like 2-4% of gdp - about half of the deficit. And tax evasion is overwhelmingly carried out by wealthy business owners.

Just a reminder, this is psychological projection. The Trump admin is constantly pursuing unpopular policies (tax cuts for rich, Iran war, ICE/CBP extrajudicially murdering Americans).

The DC murder rate in 2025 was around 20 per 100k residents, which is still well above almost every Western European capital, not to mention Tokyo or Seoul.

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

And this is why politicians shouldn’t point to the stock market as a measure of success. Not only are the benefits highly uneven, the markets are liable to make you a liar in a real hurry.

Trump says this is a “small price” to pay for his war on Iran.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Intelligence chair not showing any signs of intelligence

For all the theories that Trump represents a break from Republican orthodoxy, the results seem to be the same: unnecessary Middle East wars, a worsening economy, and record deficits.